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🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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With the continued spread of COVID-19, self-isolation has become the norm in many places. But there are five common things that people do every day that hurt their immune system. In this episode, Dr. Jockers explains why your immune system actually benefits from being subjected to bacteria and viruses. He also discusses the lifestyle activities that cripple our immune system and how to avoid the further decline of our immune health. All these strategies are going to apply to help you take back control of your health!
“Most people are going to get infected with COVID-19. Your body is going to be stronger and more resilient by going through it.” - Dr. Jockers
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In This Episode:
- The reason why your immune system needs to be exposed to viruses and bacteria
- Five behaviors that weaken your immune system
- Top eight foods to strengthen your immune health
- Activities that improve your immunity
- Health benefits of Vitamin C, D, and Zinc
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0:00.0 | When our blood sugar, when we have a blood sugar of 120, which is considered pre-diabetic, |
0:06.6 | 126 would be the diabetic range, fasting blood sugar of 120, that it actually reduces our, |
0:13.9 | what's called our phagocytic index or the ability of a white blood cell to destroy a virus, bacteria, a pathogen, it reduces it by 75%. |
0:26.5 | Hello and welcome to the Dr. Jockers' functional nutrition podcast, the show designed to give you |
0:34.8 | science-based solutions to improve your health and life. |
0:39.0 | I'm David Jockers, doctor of natural medicine, chiropractor, and functional nutritionist. |
0:44.2 | And I'm the host on this podcast. |
0:46.7 | And I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself. |
0:50.3 | And on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal and function at your best. |
0:56.8 | Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into the show. |
1:09.6 | Hey, friends, I know your life has been impacted by the coronavirus. COVID-19. All of us, all of our lives have been impacted. And I think one thing all of us can agree upon is that we have to take control of our immune system. We really need to work on improving our body's immune |
1:28.2 | response. You see, we're always surrounded. We're breathing in thousands of pathogens with every |
1:34.9 | single breath. That's bacteria, viruses, parasites, all these different microorganisms, |
1:42.0 | and their job is to break down decaying matter. They recycle |
1:46.4 | things on the planet. Our job, while we're alive, is to not be decaying matter. Our job is to be |
1:52.6 | full of life, full of vibrancy, to really promote the full expression of life. And to do that, |
1:59.7 | we've got to really take good care of our immune system. |
2:02.5 | So this podcast, I give you some key strategies and things you need to be aware of when it comes to |
2:09.2 | really optimizing your immune response so you can be healthy and well. So you can not deal with |
2:15.3 | the coronavirus, the flu, or really, you know, any other immune compromised type of issue. |
2:21.3 | So hopefully you get a lot of value out of it. |
2:24.1 | And if you do, please share it with people. |
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